Josh --

At 7:50 PM -0800 5/9/00, Joshua Gargus wrote:
>Wow!  Thank goodness I was in diapers when people were writing code
>like that.  Although hopefully in 30 years, the young 'uns will be
>saying the same thing about that archaic Squeak ;-)

I hope so too! But I said that about Smalltalk 20 years ago -- in the hopes
that something much better would be invented by the next generation -- but
here it still is! This is why WE need to make something much better. (And
don't forget when C was first invented ....)

Cheers,

Alan

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>On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 08:39:41PM -0700, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>> "David N. Smith \(IBM\)" <dnsmith at watson.ibm.com> wrote...
>> >BTW, my first programs were in FORTRAN on a 1401 back in college.
>>
>> FORTRAN -- did you say FORTRAN?
>>
>> Maybe you can tell me what this does...
>>
>>        INTEGER N(134)/'0','1',132*'0'/,L(2)/'(133',' A1)'/,G/133/,H/266/
>>        DO 1 K=G,17688
>>        IF(K.EQ.K/G*G) WRITE(6,L)(L(2),J=K,17689,H)(N((K-J)/G+2),J=G,K,G)
>>        N(J-K+1)=2**24*MOD((N(J-K+1)-N(1)+(N(J-K)-N(1))/10)/2**23,10)+N(1)
>> 1      IF(MOD(K+1,G).EQ.0.AND.N(J/G+1).LE.N(1)) K=K-G
>>        END
>>
>> 	- Dan
>>
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